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Bonzie Colson’s roots in New England basketball run deep. When Colson was four or five, he liked to shoot on a lowered basket at the gym where his father, Bonzie Colson Sr., was a college assistant coach.
One day Red Auerbach, the Celtics legend, saw Colson playing. “Coach Auerbach said, ‘Is that your son?’” Bonzie Sr. recalls. “I said, ‘Yes sir.’ And he said, ‘He’s going to be a special player.’”
Auerbach was right. Colson,…